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One of the kyuaksa or Burmese alphabet inscriptions at the Kuthodaw Pagoda, Mandalay, Myanmar. The entire Tipitaka Pali canon is set on 729 marble slabs, and each stone is housed in a kyauksa gu or a small cave-like stupa. (unedited)

The 1851 Traverse des Sioux Treaty ceded approximately 35 million acres of land in Minnesota and Iowa to the federal government. The treaty was signed on Pilot Knob and this plaque commemorates the signing.

St. Louis Park City Hall building

An ATV drives a wagon full of kids on a hay ride during Khmer New Year.

All of the sold statues and painted Buddha statues are neatly placed on pyramidal stands, lit up by the same multicolor LED lights that pervade the rest of the stupa.

In the lower level of the stupa, there is a work station where the buddha statues are painted, preparing to be placed for view in the stupa.